Kendall, How about making some of the parts out of plastic. Valve slides, cylindrical parts of the horn? Have you seen the pBone? http://store.osmun.com/browse.cfm/pbone-plastic-trombone/4,2340.html
Might make the horn lighter than a snowblower. Luke Zyla On Aug 16, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Kendall Betts wrote: > Bruce Lawson and I have the acoustic for a Lawson > triple worked out that should play well on all 3 sides as there will be no > straight sections where there should be tapers but the engineering of it is > a big problem to reduce weight. We are looking at lighter materials for the > valve set and perhaps other parts. Compatibility with adhesion to brass > alloys and lubrication are a problem but we are working on it. This design, > if successful, will be somewhat revolutionary compared to what's out there > now. I'm hoping to have a prototype done by the end of the year which > hopefully will weigh less than a Honda (not the car, the snowblower). _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
